Geography's Primary Tools
Food for the Land
Urban Land Use
Food Inc
Industries
100
diagrams show directions, bearings and are used to indiate direction on a map
What is a compass rose?
100
temporary situation when a country or region does not have enough food available for its population
What is a famine?
100
the 'downtown' of a city
What is the Central Business District?
100
McDonalds is the largest producer of these
What are beef and potatoes?
100
this type of industry deals with production
What is primary industry?
200
these show a large amount of detail for a small area
What is a large scale map?
200
chemical designed to kill unwanted plants and weeds
What is a herbicide?
200
measure of the number of housing units per hectare
What is residential density?
200
many of our industrial foods are a clever arrangement of this food item
What is corn?
200
a naturally re-occuring, pure, non-living substance found inthe rocks of the earth
What is a mineral deposit?
300
device can pinpoint a location anywhere on the planet.
What is a global positioning system? (GPS)
300
the development in the 2nd half of the 20th century of high yielding crops of wheat and rice which led to increased harvests.
What is the Green Revolution?
300
low-density development surrounding a city
What is urban sprawl?
300
number processed at Smithfield Hog Processing Plant in Tar Heel each day
What is 32,000 hogs killed per day?
300
process where metals are removed from ore or a concentrate for use in industry
What is smelting?
400
this divides the earth's surface into zones
What are time zones?
400
cultivation of plants and domestication of animals, started in Middle East about 10,000 years ago
What is Agricultural Revolution?
400
ideal to build cities with inside and outside enviroments that are livable during long harsh winters
What is the winter-city concept?
400
large companies such as Pepsi Co. do not grow organically but rather by this process
What is aquisition?
400
this is a serious problem for the forests in Eastern Canada
What is acid precipitation?
500
This is the linear symbol used to represent features on topographical maps
What is a line symbol?
500
development of crops, such as corn, rice and wheat, specifically bred to replace lower-yielding native crops
What is high-yield varieties?
500
malls are designed around these
What is an anchor?
500
Barbara Kowalcyk's son died from this
What is is O157H7 ecoli?
500
most productive forest in Canada
What is the West Coast Forest Region?
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